I've been reading a lot recently, and for a change, no more thriller/mystery (think Dan Brown, Steig Larsson). Making a revolutionary switch to lighter casual reads.
2012 reads:
1) Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol
2) Jean Kwok - Girl in Translation
3) Andrea Busfield - Born Under A Million Shadows
4) Jodi Picoult - House Rules
5) Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Current read:
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
I love how a book could paint a picture with a thousand words, literally. If you think about it, when we read, we are actually attempting to imagine someone else's imagination. We enter into a different realm altogether, being transported into a different place of a different time. We become creators of the scenes, the faces of the characters, the sounds of their voices.
A novel then becomes a mental movie for only one, and it thrills me to think that the same book could be viewed in so many ways.
If there are 2 things I think I'm really good at...
It is
1) Self-entertainment
2) Minesweeper (Expert Level: 97s fastest. BEAT ME!!! :D)
Yup your arguments about reading books are very valid and true. But thriller/mystery books are so much nicerrrrrrr
ReplyDeleteOh and the Minesweeper part was pretty funny hahaha. Unfortunately, I can never understand the logic behind the game ):
YA! I agree, keeps you flipping the pages. Intense stuff. But for now, I wanna just relax to some milder reads where I don't have to think so much :D
ReplyDeleteMinesweeper is kinda addictive if you get the hang of it. Very simple, the number in the box indicates how many bombs there are surrounding the box. If it shows '1', it means out of 8 boxes surrounding that box, one of them contains a bomb. Play and beat me!! :D
Minesweeper is impossible. Even using the 3 by 3 square I still get bombed ):
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